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EMBOSSING MACHINE MOUNTED ON INCLINE AND HAVING GRAVITY ACTUATED LINESPACING MEANS Filed July 29, 1963 46 Sheets-Sheet 8 0 Inventor Walter Tfiiollwit er May 31, 1966 w. T. GOLLWITZER EMBOSSING MACHINE MOUNTED ON INCLINE AND HAVING GRAVITY ACTUATED LINESPACING MEANS 46 Sheets-Sheet 9 Filed July 29, 1963 awr r Inventor Walter TQollwii er' I 311M102, and 3m fittornel ps AVITY May 31, 1966 w. 'r. GOLLWITZER EMBOSSING MACHINE MOUNTED ON INCLINE AND HAVING GR ACTUATED LINESPACING MEANS Filed July 29, 1963 46 Sheets-Sheet 10 Inventor waiter T. Gollwit er 5A. Hfdfiw, and DM/ fi'Hon-zegfi y 1, 1966 w. T. GOLLWITZER ,2 9

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1. AN EMBOSSING MACHINE COMPRISING: A PUNCH AND DIE MECHANISM LOCATED AT AN EMBOSSING STATION; PUNCH AND DIE SUPPORT MEANS SUPPORTING SAID PUNCH AND DIE MECHANISMS FOR MOVEMENT IN A PLANE INCLINED AT A SUBSTANTIAL ANGLE TO THE HORIZONTAL; CARRIAGE MEANS FOR SUPPORTING AN ARTICLE TO BE EMBOSSED IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID INCLINED PLANE; RAM MEANS, ORIENTED ALONG AN AXIS NORMAL TO SAID INCLINED PLANE, FOR APPLYING EMBOSSING PRESSURE TO THE PUNCH AND DIE MECHANISM; RAM SUPPORT MEANS SUPPORTING SAID RAM MEANS FOR MOVEMENT UPWARDLY AND DOWNWARDLY ALONG SAID INCLINED PLANE; AND LINE SPACING MEANS FOR CONTROLLING GRAVITY-INDUCED DOWNWARD MOVEMENT OF SAID RAM SUPPORT MEANS IN SAID INCLINED PLANE IN PREDETERMINED INCREMENTS TO EFFECT LINE SPACING IN THE EMBOSSURE OF SAID ARTICLE. 